What does the future hold for networks?

You may already have heard the term Next Generation Network (NGN) on more than one occasion. It's used to describe the network technology that will be delivered over the next 10-15 years. The concept is that a range of services including voice, video and media will all be delivered with maximum efficiency and reliability over a single network.

What this means for business is:

• Equipment is reducing in size and becoming increasingly converged
• Systems are becoming faster, more secure and resilient
• Quality of service (QoS) has also created some dramatic changes by enabling different application and data packets to be prioritised
• And because NGNs increasingly rely on software, new applications and services can be deployed quickly

Colt MSP together with our Long distance Network are key components of out Next Generation Network Programme. Essentially they deliver on all of these points and more, enabling you to have access to a number of services over a single high capacity connection. Find out how it works

Colt's Next Generation Long Distance Network

For national and international services, Colt MSP runs over our Long Distance Network. And to bring further benefits to customers, Colt has just completed a multi-million euro investment in developing our state-of-the art Next Generation Long Distance Network. Simply, this offers:

• Improved performance
• A massive increase in capacity
• And greater resilience

It also makes for fast, point and click provisioning and easier management.

This network is available right now. This means the benefits of Colt MSP are available not just in the Metro, but nationally and internationally too. It means you can get all the benefits of Colt MSP between 18 countries and 39 cities.

To put our Long Distance Network's capability into context, it can transport the entire contents of the British Library across Europe every 6 seconds.